Flu.

[sechan19]

All this fluttery talk of the swine flu left me with an unwavering desire to watch the 1994 mini-series, The Stand, in which 99.4% of the world population succumbs to a government-engineered "superflu."

The lengths to which the world leaders go in this story to keep the flu rumors under control have reassured me that we have little to worry about in the face of this most recent pandemic. If we were really in a panic situation, there would be a hell of a lot less media talk on the subject.

Yay! for reassuring summer horror tv serieses. ;>

Comments

[lordameth.livejournal.com]

Really!?!

I always thought The Stand was a law drama. I guess I must have made an association in my mind with a witness taking the stand, and concocted this idea of it being a law drama without ever giving it a second thought, or ever happening across something which would inform me otherwise.

Wow.

[reteva.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it couldn't be any farther from a law drama than it already is. Heh. It's actually an interesting take on the end-of-the-world motif that was so well established in the 50s and 60s by such novels as Alas Babylon and Day of the Triffids - a little too imbued with Christian mythological constructs for my adult palate, but a very good novel (and mini-series) all the same.